EODS OPERATIC SECTION
2005
My Fair Lady
Book & Lyrics By Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Fredrick Loewe
Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play and Gabrial Pascal’s motion picture ‘Pygmalion’
This charming, romantic and highly amusing musical satire about the absurdity of class is one of theatre’s most glorious and best-loved shows from a classic era.
Professor Henry Higgins bets his fellow linguist, the sympathetic Colonel Pickering, that he can transform the coarse cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, in just six months and pass her off as a duchess at the forthcoming Embassy Ball. My Fair Lady boasts a wealth of memorable songs including 'Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?', 'On The Street Where You Live', and the lavishly staged 'Ascot Gavotte'.
Having opened in London’s West End in 1958, the show ran for over five years, before being developed into a multi Oscar winning film in 1964, starring Rex Harrison and the iconic Audrey Hepburn.
CAST LIST
Professor Higgins - Tony Harris Colonel Pickering - Cliff Bendall Eliza Doolittle - Collette Ridehalgh Alfred Doolittle - Stan Fillery Freddy Eynsford-Hill - Danny Pearce
